The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-08
BILL NYE's BLASTED PASS.


ahead OF the biting blasts OF the l. O.
b., writes Bill Nye from Hudson, Wis.
to the New York World. BY the ]. c.
B., l mean to imply the Interstate
commission bill.
Noticed while en- rott, that the
new law had stimulated travel to q
wonderful degree. On my way from
the South, where | was during the,
winter, l noticed that the sluggish
arteries o. trade had already begun
to palpitate, and crowds OF people
filled the cars on every train.
/ said to myself Congress has atlast
solved this great question: OF financial
stringency and broken the great dam
that held capital captive. On the
Piedmont Air Line people crushed each
other together in mad attempt to
travel. On the Richmond and Dan
vile and East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia, as well as the Louisville and
Nashville, humanity crowded day
coaches and sleepers till the walls
cracked. At Cincinnati | could not
get sleeping car at all, ana | had to
telegraph twenty-four hours ahead to
get to Chicago. Everywhere, as faras
the eve could reach, there seemed to
be wild and restless desir' to get
somewhere else. Several companies
have had to put on extra coaches to
carry the eager tourists.
arrived here just in time to witness
the last moments OF a Northwestern
pass as its spirit took its flight. Had !
postponed my journey for asingle day
| would have been too late.
1t was still young. Life was before
it. Barely a quarter OF the span OF
it's life had been passed when it curled
up and expired. 1t was cute little
thing with an olive complexion, and
large, mournful. upper case eyes,
A few weeks ago | noticed that it
did not look well. 1t did not com.
plain OF illness or pain, but /
thought | detected condition
on it's back, and so ! hurried
home in order to be here in case
it should expire. Az soon as the con-
ductor looked at it and felt its pulse
he said that he could do nothing for
it. The inter State commerce law is
one OF those things that will have to
be tried before we can pass upon 1t, l
presume, though some claim that 1t
Is going to be very difficult TO pass
upon 1t even then. This thought oc-
cured to me just after the gate-keeper
pushed me back yesterday and told
me to 90 and get my ticket.
then first realized what it was to
be rudely ground under the heel OF
cold corporation that is devoid OF
soul, devoid ofnoble thoughts, devoid
OF refined instincts, devoid OF kind
impulses. devoid OF milk OF human
kindness, devoid OF bowels OF compass
sion.
From force OF habit walked up to
the gate with q joyous nod and the
old password, only to be coldly re-
pulsed by the hired bouncer OF this
heartless, souless, impulseless, milk
|
But the railroads will get the worst
OF it, for / know that trave! on some
OF the lines has fallen oil since Apri.
l.. can see it already. have fallen
of myself since the LIST OF the month,
and Others will do the same.
That is not all. A friend OF mine
who runs paper, and whose pass
got the hollow horn on Friday
last, says that his columns are
now open to those who wish
TO complain OF the management oil the
road. He states that the first not
box will be duly chronicled, and that
he will no longer close his eyes to the
wrongs we have heret oiore suffered at
| the hands OF the unjust and ruthless
vampire that has been sapping the
very foundations OF our institutions
and smearing its long, dark trail with
| the remnants OF our best mich cows,
reluctantly paying for them the price
set at the tail OF an unjust and ener,
waiting trial by corrupt, venal and
driveling jury.
He says that the time has come toI
| the press to arise and assert itself, T"
and when the train runs of the track
and kills lot Of people who have led
exemplary lives, his paper will hereatt'
err tell why and how 1t was done,
Heretofore he has not had sufficient
help in the Office, but now he Is goinl
to give all the particulars OF the first
smash-up that occurs on the road u
the paper tails into the relentless
NAV OF sheriifs sale on the follow
ing week.
A Woman Whistler.